Dancers for the XX Century and even more

Triennale #milano and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are presenting 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more by the French choreographer #borischarmatz as part of their #partnership. This is a proposition by the Nomadic Nights (the live program of the Fondation Cartier in Paris) for the exhibition Les Citoyens, Guillermo Kuitca on the collection of the #fondationcartierpourlartcontemporain and the #triennale Estate program, and on the occasion of #milano Design Week.

Invited by the Fondation Cartier as part of the exhibition Les Citoyens, Guillermo Kuitca on the collection of the #fondationcartierpourlartcontemporain currently on show at #triennale #milano, the dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz is presenting his project 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more on all of the levels of the magnificent Palazzo dell’Arte in Milan – a remarkable event to experience in situ or watch via live stream.

Boris Charmatz enjoys moving dance off the stage and occupying public spaces. After the Opéra de Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA in New York, he is now taking 20 Dancers for the XX Century and More to #triennale #milano.

This performance-exhibition presents a living, invigorating dance archive in which all styles mingle, from the last century to today.

“Dancers’ bodies are a museum, an archival site. They are a site of memory. Works must be continually reinvented. 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more shows the extent to which the history of dance is rich and alive,” Boris Charmatz affirms.

Spread over all levels of #triennale #milano, twenty dancers reinterpret and appropriate famous solos, acclaimed or forgotten, by modern and postmodern artists. Audiences wander freely through this imaginary dance collection, encountered along a hallway, up a staircase or in an exhibition room. From the avant-gardes to the Ballets Russes, traditional dances to film choreographies, the history of dance is broadly celebrated here. Each person can freely reconstitute their own living archive, plural and non-linear, to make connections and expand their collection of gestures.

A Nomadic Night to watch via live stream as well

The Fondation Cartier and [terrain] have invited César Vayssié, director and longtime collaborator of Charmatz, to film this one-time #performance live. Vayssié slips into the audience and proposes his own random and subjective wander through the #performance 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more at #triennale #milano.

Boris Charmatz

Dancer, choreographer, creator of experimental projects, director of the Musée de la Danse from 2009 to 2018 and of [terrain] since 2019, #borischarmatz is one of the major figures of the French contemporary choreography scene. From À bras-le-corps (1993) to La Ronde (2021), he has created a series of landmark pieces in parallel with his activities as a performer and improviser (notably with Médéric Collignon, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Tino Sehgal). He is also the author of several books, including Je suis une École in 2009 and EMAILS 2009-2010 in 2013, co-authored with Jérôme Bel. In 2017, the MoMA (New York) published the monograph Boris Charmatz, edited by Ana Janevski and featuring contributions from a number of artists and writers. In 2021, Charmatz created La Ronde as part of the event Avant-travaux, le Grand Palais invite Boris Charmatz. This project was the subject of a new documentary and film broadcast on France 5. In June 2021, he orchestrated a #performance for 130 dancers, Happening Tempête, for the opening of the Grand Palais Éphémère.

Information

20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more #triennale #milano, September 10, 2021 at 9 p.m.

Tickets available online at triennale.org and vivaticket.org and through the #triennale ticketing office, viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Milano

Tickets: 10 euros

Spectators can come and go as they please from the start to the end of the #performance. Its lasts 3 hours and it is possible to move about freely through the spaces

The #performance is broadcast via live stream (information and links to come)

Conception: #borischarmatz Production and distribution: [terrain]

A production of the Musée de la Danse / Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne (2012).

With: Djino Alolo Sabin, Boglárka Börcsök, Ashley Chen, Marco D’Agostin, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Olga Dukovnaya, Jacquelyn Elder, Bryana Fritz, Mette Ingvartsen or Manon Santkin (TBC), Johanna Lemke, Felipe Lourenço, Fabrice Mazliah, Julien Monty, Benjamin Pech, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Marlène Saldana, Cristina Saso, Asha Thomas, Claudia Triozzi and Frank Willens

Live stream director: César Vayssié

Live stream producer: Fondation Cartier Nomadic Nights, [terrain], César Vayssié

The Nomadic Nights

The program of live events offered by the #fondationcartierpourlartcontemporain, the Nomadic Nights explore performing arts, inviting artists from the contemporary scene to flood the Fondation Cartier’s exhibition spaces and garden for one night. Since their creation in 1994, the Nomadic Nights have presented numerous original and multidisciplinary projects, both challenging and broadly appealing, reflecting its spirit of openness, curiosity and discovery.

Les Citoyens, Guillermo Kuitca on the collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

Triennale #milano and the #fondationcartierpourlartcontemporain are presenting the exhibition Les Citoyens, Guillermo Kuitca on the collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, from May 6 to September 12, 2021.

Through the works of 28 artists, the Argentinian artist is staging an interrogation of the notions of collective, group and community. The second exhibition being held as part of the #partnership between the two institutions, Les Citoyens proposes a journey through the collection of the Fondation Cartier and beyond, into the heart of contemporary creation.